Amit Kumar

Anixa Biosciences Stanford University Caltech

Dr. Kumar is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anixa Biosciences. He has served as an investor, founder, director, and CEO of several public and private technology enterprises. As CEO of CombiMatrix Corporation, he took the company public and led it for a decade while it was listed on the NASDAQ Global Market.

Dr. Kumar has also worked in venture capital with OAK Investment Partners and has served as an advisor to investment funds, venture capital firms, and Fortune 500 companies. He served on the Board of Directors of Acacia Research Corporation from 2002 to 2008 and currently sits on the boards of other public and private companies. He has also served on the Board of the American Cancer Society since 2016.

Dr. Kumar received his AB in Chemistry from Occidental College. Following graduate studies at Stanford University and Caltech, he earned his PhD from Caltech and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard.